Live your present because it matters the most!

1. Rukshana Thomas

2. DIGITAL DETOX REFERS
TO A PERIOD OF TIME
DURING WHICH A PERSON
REFRAINS FROM USING
ELECTRONIC
CONNECTING DEVICES
SUCH AS SMARTPHONES
AND COMPUTERS. IT IS
REGARDED AS AN
OPPORTUNITY TO
REDUCE STRESS OR FOCUS
ON SOCIAL INTERACTION
IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD.

3. We WISH accomplishing a digital detox was as
easy and consequence-free

4. TAKE A QUIZ app
Track Your Habits:
turn your online habits into cold hard data.
the Lite version is free, premium is $9 a month
tracks and reports how long you spent on
specific websites
lets you block certain websites
allot time for distractions and set goals for your
computer and work habits.

6. Moment (free for iOS, coming soon to
Android)
New “invisible” app
does all of its work in the background
of your
phone
Set daily limits for yourself and get
notified
“put down your phone and get back to
your life.”

8. 4. Download This App to Go HAM on
Your Habits:
encourage you to disconnect and apps that
will sever the cord and not let you log back
on.
Freedom works on Android ($5)
put your phone back in “1995 mode,”
turning off cellular data, WiFi and
Bluetooth so you can ONLY use it to make
and receive calls.

10. Strip Away Social Media
Anti-Social ($15 for Windows,
Mac and Ubuntu) will block your
work day’s biggest time sucks.
Warning — once you flip the
switch, you can’t turn it off, so make
sure you’re ready to say goodbye to
Facebook for the day before you do!

12. Get Only the Emails You Want
making your tech work 4 U
instead of being slave to the
gadgets
Sites like Unroll.me, a couple
quickGmail hacks, apps like
Mailbox & the upcoming Mail
app in iOS 8

14. Calm.com
`If your job keeps you on the computer for most of the day’

15. Distract Yourself With More
Productive Apps
Skip the Candy Crush
download Lumosity
Instead of updating your status,
start tapping away on that future
novel or screenplay with anyone of
digital tools for writers

17. WE LIVE IN AN
EXTRAORDINARY
TIME IN HUMAN
HISTORY

19. Turn off, shut down, log out: the
digital detox holiday is here

20. Developing a new code of ethics around
technologies, creating social etiquette, setting
positive cultural norms, and raising awareness
around harmful habits while sharing the
importance of mindfulness is urgent.
This is our opportunity to set the stage for future
generations and celebrate our humanity along the
way.
Together, we’ll redefine what it means to be
connected.

21. Tourism operators are responding to demand by offering
“digital detox” so that people tend to disconnect.
Since nine years Apple released its first iPhone, smartphones
and tablets have become an ubiquitous part of daily life
Australians aged 18 to 24 use at least four online devices —
and their elders are catching up.
The amount of data downloaded to Australian mobile
phones in 2013-14 was almost double the amount
downloaded in 2012-13.
The handheld revolution continues to gather speed, but a
growing number of people are trying to pump the brakes.

22. Mrs.Caroline Babbage is the owner of Fawkes House in
Carmel, an award-winning hills retreat surrounded by
vineyards and gardens.
Mrs Babbage recently launched a “digital detox” first in
Perth.
“I noticed more people were saying they didn’t want the
wi-fi codes because they wanted to get away from that”
Guests can choose from a range of slow-paced activities
to promote “mindfulness”.
Digital detoxes are wildly popular in the US and South
Korea and operators across Australia are catching on.

24. A two-hour drive
from San
Francisco
Camp name —
like Barnaby,
Topless, Popcorn
or Honey Bear

25. “We use technology, we
maintain control over it and
anything that gives us a
sense we can exercise more
control is fantastic, but
addiction rhetoric takes away
from that.”